Naive question about group names

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,

I have long notived that when I create new groups, say,
nnml:testing, in the group buffer I can get voth testing and
nnnl:testing, and they point to identical data, though flags on
individual messages are not shared (making with ! or ? is local to the
group name).

I have been using Gnus for decades, and I have always ignored
this disparity, I have always wondered why there are two variants (I
generally make one or the other a zombie group). Is there a canonical
name? Should I work wirh testing or nnml:testing? Is there a way to
eliminate one or the other?

manoj

[Adam Sjøgren]

Post by Manoj Srivastava
I have been using Gnus for decades, and I have always ignored
this disparity, I have always wondered why there are two variants (I
generally make one or the other a zombie group). Is there a canonical
name? Should I work wirh testing or nnml:testing? Is there a way to
eliminate one or the other?

Do you by any change have nnml as your gnus-select-method?

I tend to configure Gnus to have an nnnil server in gnus-select-method,
and then add my real servers to gnus-secondary-select-methods. This way,
all groups will have the server prefix.

The difference between gnus-select-method and
gnus-secondary-select-methods is exactly that, I think, so it might be
the root cause of the duplication you see.


Best regards,

Adam